Handle for vessels.



PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904-.

T. E. CRAWFORD. HANDLE FOR VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26. 1904.

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Patented August 2, 1904.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS E. CRAWFORD, OF WAUMANDEE, l VISCONSIN.

HANDLE FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,671, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed February 26, 1904. Serial No. 195,369- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. Cnmvronoa citizen of the United States, and a resident of Waumandee,in the county of Buffalo and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles for Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to handles for buckets or other vessels; and the object thereof is to provide simple and inexpensive handle-attaching means capable of being readily applied to and detached from a vessel and having much greater durability than is possessed by the ordinary permanent bail-ears usually applied to vessels.

To this end the invention includes the combination and arrangement of component parts to be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 shows the same in perspective, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the same applied to a vessel.

The invention is primarily intended to provide carrying means for the ordinary milktanks of cream-separators or similar vessels, which are not ordinarily provided with handles, and while this association of the device has been selected to illustrate the same it will be understood that the application thereof is by no means restricted to this special use.

In the accompanyingdrawings a milk-tank of a cream-separator is designated by the letter a, having an external edge rim or bead b. The handle-attaching means includes a ring or band 0 of approximately the diameter of the portion of the vessel about which it is to fit and loops (Z, bent laterally therefrom at diametrically opposite points to provide bailears. The material from which the rings and loops are formed preferably has some resiliency. Each loop is provided with an offseta adjacent to the main portion of the ring 0, which provides a seat to receive the rim or bead b. At the point of the offset (1 the sides f g of each loop are brought into close juxtaposition; but they flare outwardly above the same to provide a large opening for the reception of the hooked ends of the bail.

As will be noted, the portion of each loop above the offset 0 is preferably straight and in direct vertical alinement with the point in the ring from which the loop branches or a little to the inside of said point, and the pertions of the band a are bent downwardly adjacentthe sides of the loops and then upwardly to provide said sides f y or strands.

1n securing the attachment to a vessel the ring a is fitted over the smaller end of the same and forced axially thereof until the ears (Z snap over the head 7), the latter finding seats in the offsets e,and the attachment is thus firmly secured to the pail or vessel, but may be readily detached therefrom when desired.

The construction and operation of my invention will be readily understood upon reference to the foregoing description and accompanying drawings, and it willbe appreciated that the parts and combinations recited may be varied within a wide range without departing from the spirit and scope thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what i I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a vessel having an external bead or rim, of an endless ring having resilient loop portions extending laterally from the ring at diametrically opposite points and formed by integral continuations thereof, each of said loops having an offset portion providing a recess for the accommodation of the rim, the portions of each loop above the offset being straight and in direct vertical alinement with the point in. the ring from which the loop branches, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a vessel having an external bead or rim, of an endless ring having portions thereof at opposite sides of the same bent downwardly and then upwardly to form substantially parallel strands integral with each other and providing loops, said strands having offset portionsextending at angles to the lengths of the same to provide recesses to receive the rim, the strands diverging from the offset portions, and a bail having hooked ends engaging the parts of said loops projecting above the rim of the vessel, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a vessel having an external rim, a handle, an endless ring, loops integral therewith and extending laterally therefrom at diametrically opposite points, each of said loops having an ofl set portion providing a recess in the length of the same to accommodate the external rim of a vessel and having the sides thereof at said ofiset portion brought into close juxtaposition and flaring outwardly upwardly therefrom, and a bail having hooked ends engaging the open- 

